MUSEUM NEWS 



Award 



Nature Photo Contest 



Entries to the 16th Chicago Interna- 

 tional Exhibition of Nature Photography, 

 to be held in the Museum February 5- 

 25, 1961, must be submitted not later 

 than January 16 to qualify for exhibi- 

 tion, according to contest officials. 



The exhibition will be composed of 

 two divisions, prints and transparencies, 

 and no more than four entries may be 

 submitted in either category. Subject 

 matter of the photographs may be ani- 

 mal life, plant life, or any other natural 

 history subject such as clouds, land- 

 scapes, ancient ruins, etc. 



Winners in the various print and slide 

 classifications will be awarded silver med- 

 als and ribbons, with the medal winners 

 also receiving the Museum Bulletin 

 free for a year. Names of winners will 

 be inscribed on the Myrtle R. Wal- 

 green plaque on display in the Museum. 

 Projection of the accepted slides will 

 take place on February 5 and 12, Sun- 

 days, at 2:30 p.m. in the James Simpson 

 Theatre. 



The international photography exhi- 

 bition is sponsored jointly by the Mu- 

 seum and the Chicago Nature Camera 

 Club. Members of the Museum staff 

 who will act as judges in the exhibition 

 are John R. Millar, Chief Curator of 

 Botany, and Dr. C. Earle Smith, Jr., 

 botanist and photographer. 



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Director Clifford C. Gregg 

 accepting, in behalf of the 

 Museum, the 4-H Club 

 "Donor Merit Award" for 

 the Museum's "40 years' 

 support of 4-H Club work 

 through the National 4-H 

 Club Congress" from Chris 

 L. Christensen, President, 

 National 4-H Service Com- 

 mittee. Since 1920 the Muse- 

 um has organized special 

 Museum tours for 4-H Club 

 delegates visiting Chicago 

 during the International Live- 

 stock Exposition. The cita- 

 tion was presented at a 

 luncheon held in the Conrad 

 Hilton Hotel on December 6. 



New Board Member 



At the December meeting of the Board 

 of Trustees, Mr. J. Howard Wood was 

 elected a Corporate Member and a 

 member of the Board. 



Mr. Wood, President of the Chicago 

 Tribune Company, is well known in Chi- 

 cago both in business and civic circles. 



Chamber Music Concert 



The world premiere of a new compo- 

 sition for string quartet and piano by 

 Willard Straight, young American com- 

 poser, conductor, and pianist, will high- 

 light Free Concerts Foundation's third 

 program in the 1960-61 concert series 

 in James Simpson Theatre, Wednesday, 

 January 11, 8:30 p.m. Straight will play 

 the piano part in his new quintet, which 

 was commissioned by Mrs. J. Dennis 

 Freund especially for the Foundation's 

 second concert season. Joining him, 

 will be the Festival String Quartet : Sid- 

 ney and Teresa Testa Harth, violins; 

 Rolf Persinger, viola; and Robert La- 

 Marchina, cello. 



The program will also include the 

 Ravel Sonata for violin and cello and 

 Kodaly's String Quartet Number 2. 



Tickets to the January 1 1 free concert 

 may be obtained by sending a self- 

 addressed, stamped envelope to Free 

 Concerts Foundation, Chicago Natural 

 History Museum. The next free concert 



Chicago Natural History Museum 



Founded by Marshall Field, 1893 



Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 5 



Telephone: WAbash 2-9410 



THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

 Lester Armour William V. Kahler 



Wm. McCormick Blair Hughston M. McBain 



Walther Buchen J. Roscoe Miller 



Walter J. Cummings William H. Mitchell 



Joseph N. Field John T. I'ikie, Jr. 



Marshall Field, Jr. Clarence B. Randall 



Stanley Field John G. Searle 



Samuel Insull, Jr. Solomon A. Smith 



Henry P. Isham Louis Ware 



J. Howard Wood 



OFFICERS 



Stanley Field President 



Hughston M. McBain First Vice-President 



Walther Buchen Second Vice-President 



Joseph N. Field Third Vice-President 



Solomon A. Smith Treasurer 



Clifford C Gregg Director and Secretary 



E. Leland Webber Assistant Secretary 



THE BULLETIN 



EDITOR 

 Clifford C Gregg Director of the Museum 



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 



Paul S. Martin Chief Curator of Anthropology 



John R. Millar Chief Curator of Botany 



Sharat K. Roy Chief Curator of Geology 



Austin L. Rand Chief Curator of Zoology 



MANAGING EDITOR 

 Paula R. Nelson Public Relations Counsel 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR 

 Marilyn Jindrich Associate m Public Relations 



Members are requested to inform the Museum 

 promptly of changes of address. 



will be on Friday, February 3. (Tickets 

 will be available after the January con- 

 cert.) 



From the Library- 

 Ornithologists and bird fanciers are in- 

 formed that there is now available in the 

 Museum's third floor scientific library a 

 copy of Birds of North Carolina from the 

 North Carolina State Museum. The 

 volume, by T. Gilbert Pearson, C. S. 

 Brimley, and H. H. Brimley, gives the 

 story of every bird known from North 

 Carolina — including introduced species 

 such as the starling and the English 

 sparrow, and the extinct paroquet, pas- 

 senger pigeon, and ivory-billed wood- 

 pecker. The birds are arranged and 

 described according to the latest Amer- 

 ican Ornithological Union Check-List. 

 Habits, ranges, songs, calls, and the 

 identifying marks are clearly presented, 

 with 47 illustrations (24 in color) pro- 

 viding further identification. The book 

 also contains a history of bird studies 

 made in North Carolina, beginning with 

 the year 1584, plus a comprehensive in- 

 dex and bibliography. 



